Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Palestine: Where do you stand?

Here in Ireland and in the UK, students, professors, human rights activists, NGOs...a LOT of people are doing talks and discussions and even demonstrations to raise the awareness about the dire condition of the people of Palestine, and to press the (British) government to do something to stop the blockade upon Gaza. I am not talking about the Muslims over here. I am talking about the white, the non-Muslim, Caucasians.

in all this chaos... where are WE?

what are we, Muslims, that claim to be brothers and sisters in faith to the people of Palestine, doing to help them? by supporting and buying Israeli products because 'they produce absolutely everything, it's not like we can do anything about it'..? There is always Sony Ericsson instead of Nokia. Carrefour instead of Tesco. Mango instead of River Island.

to the people who are not doing anything for the Palestinian people, and buying Israeli products to add to that...seriously. how very ignorant of you. how very selfish and foolish of you. Paying for the bullets that shot through the heads of children, paying the soldiers that use huge rocks to break our brothers' bones, the soldiers that rape our sisters...well, congratulations.

wake up Ya Ummah.

Sampai bila kita nak harapkan orang lain untuk bela nasib saudara-saudara kita? Sampai bila kita akan menjadi orang yang ternganga atau menangis di dalam perdebatan yang tidak adil, membiarkan orang lain yang bersuara untuk mempertahankan kita? Sampai bila kita ingin menjadi orang yang terus menerus menyangka bahawa Palestine sememangnya sebuah negara yang kucar-kacir sejak dahulu kala? Sampai bila...?

open your eyes to the truth.

http://www.palestinkini.info/

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